In this presentation, Clay Kraby teaches you how to create a message that will resonate with your target audience and drive sales (or registrations, donations, etc).
Learn how to write messages that effectively tell your story to your customers.
3. DEFINE YOUR AUDIENCE
It’s NOT ‘everybody’
Having too many niches is
as bad as having none
Focus on niche segments
4. DEFINE YOUR AUDIENCE
You will usually have
multiple target audiences
Each audience will need a
uniquely crafted message
Audiences are reached in
different ways
8. DEFINE YOUR AUDIENCE
What concerns do they have?
What do they value in your offering?
How do they make their decisions?
What demographic information is there?
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CONCEPT DESCRIPTION
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CONCEPT DESCRIPTION
17. Avoid Jargon
Speak to your Audience
Identify Benefits
CONCEPT DESCRIPTION
19. What’s the
Problem?
Identify the
customer’s
needs
People buy emotionally, not intellectually.
Get to the emotion behind the benefit. Always.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
20. 1. Identify the benefit
2. What problem do you solve?
3. Address this ‘pain point’
PROBLEM STATEMENT
21. Your problem statement can show
how your offering makes a
meaningful difference in your
customer’s life.
It can also serve to separate you from your
competition, if your unique solution solves a
problem that others in your industry do not
PROBLEM STATEMENT
25. So What?
How do you solve their problem?
How do you do it better than their other options?
OVERT BENEFIT
26. COMMON NEEDS OF ANY AUDIENCE
Here are a few of the most popular things buyers are
looking for:
Security - Monetary gain, freedom from financial worry.
Self-Preservation - Safety and health: for self and family.
Convenience - Comfort, more desirable use of time.
OVERT BENEFIT
27. COMMON NEEDS OF ANY AUDIENCE
Avoidance of Worry - Ease of mind, confidence.
Recognition From Others - Social status, respectability, the
wish to be admired.
Self-Improvement - Spiritual development, hunger for
knowledge, intellectual stimulation.
OVERT BENEFIT
28. WHAT NEED
IS SOLVED?
Security
Self-Preservation
Convenience
Avoidance of Worry
Recognition From Others
Self-Improvement
29. The Overt Benefit should
also describe your unique
selling position. How do
you it better than your
competition?
OVERT BENEFIT
30. Remember,
don’t compete
OVERT BENEFIT only on price